August 2012
“This asshole thought nothing of wrapping some ratty scarves around her grandma...”
– Shana on Lena Dunham’s insensitive, bigoted tweet.
As an ex-Muslim who takes comfort and solace in the hijab, and wears it at least every other day because to stop wearing it all together would be like throwing away a childhood blanket (or worse, tossing aside an old friend), Lena Dunham’s comment...
STFU, Conservatives: Conservative White Christian... →
communism-kills:
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If you are home-schooled by your Christian parents, or attend a voucher school, or are unlucky enough to attend a white Southern public school using Texas textbooks, here is a quick history minute about what the underground Railroad actually was:
The …
Another Bad Day For Romney →
stfusexists:
romney2012:
The theme of the day for the Romney campaign was, as Alex Rogers notes below, that Obama’s Soft on Welfare. It sort of flopped.
The factoid planted at the microscopic center of the non-story is that the Obama campaign allegedly granted states the right to request waivers from the current welfare work requirements…which is true, except for the following things
1. The...
These days, flouting gender conventions extends... →
countingcrowds:
Today on a forum that I post on, I mentioned that I would ideally like to keep all of my child’s possessions gender neutral until they were old enough to tell me themselves what they liked. Someone messaged me and asked why. I explained that I was open to a child who may or may not have a binary gender identity. That I didn’t want to force feminist qualities onto a biological...
